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Our Opportunity:

Chewy is seeking a talented and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Bellevue, WA. As a Software Engineer, you will serve as a senior engineer to design and build new services and frameworks that will power new product features across Chewy.com. This is an opportunity to be one of the founding engineers of a new team challenged with delivering a greenfield project that will wow our customers and deliver on our mission to be the most trusted and convenient online destination for pet parents (and partners), everywhere.

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as a technical lead on business critical, cross-functional projects.
• Design, develop, and implement large scale distributed systems that process and serve large volumes of data.
• Hold a high bar for the quality of the architecture and design of systems.
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions that operationally scale and are easily maintained.
• Instill engineering excellence in the team and have the drive to focus on scalability, resiliency, high availability and performance of applications.
• Actively mentor engineers, build and foster a strong engineering team culture, and be a key contributor in raising the bar of the engineering org.
• Generate and analyze engineering metrics to inform leadership and make data driven decisions.
• Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication and convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner.
• Contribute intellectual property through patents.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills.
• Strong computer science fundamentals (OO/functional design, data structures & algorithms)
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or another modern programming language.
• Proficiency in system-level design – microservices and service oriented architecture at scale.
• Experience developing software in an agile environment with CI/CD.
• Expert understanding how to build and scale applications in the cloud (AWS) with a focus on devops.
• Position may require occasional travel.

Bonus :

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience taking a project from inception through launch. Includes influencing the vision, communicating with leadership, stakeholders, and technical teams to disambiguate requirements, describe software product features, and produce technical design documents.
• Experience with full-stack application development, partnering with UX design and an understanding of modern front-end design patterns and frameworks, such as React.